HAITI / HUMAN RIGHTS

Deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang traveled Sunday to the northeastern border with the Dominican Republic as well as a prison and a displacement camp as part of a five-day visit to the impoverished nation. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:23
• Production Date: 5 July 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U110705h

Description

STORY: HAITI / HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 2.33
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS

DATELINE: 3 JULY 2011, FORT LIBERTE, OUANAMINTHE, CROIX DES BOUQUETS, HAITI

Shotlist

3 JULY 2011, OUANAMINTHE, HAITI

1. Wide shot, Kang and delegation arriving at police station
2. Wide shot, meeting between the DHC and Ouanaminthe police Departmental Director
3. Close up, the DHC talking to the police Departmental Director
4. Med shot, the police Departmental Director answering
5. Wide shot and pan right, delegation visiting the bridge of de border between Haiti and the Dominican Rep.
6. Med shot, woman explaining children trafficking system on the border
7. Wide and pan right from the border river to the delegation
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-wha Kang, deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Child exploitation is not a crime in Haitian law. This should be changed.”

9. 3 JULY 2011, FORT LIBERTE, HAITI

10. Close up, hand prisoner talking to the delegation
11. Wide shot, delegation visiting the prison
12. Close up, the prisoner
13. Med shot, the delegation faces the prisoners
14. Pan left, gate cellule to the delegation
15. Close up, the prisoner hand holding the gate bar
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-wha Kang, deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“I visited many poor countries but I’ve never seen such terrible conditions for prisoners.”

3 JULY 2011, CROIX DES BOUQUETS, HAITI

17. Med shot, delegation visiting IDP Camp Canaan
18. Med shot, delegation DHC checking woman’s hand in Camp Canaan
19. Close up, displaced woman
20. Wide shot, delegation walking in the IDP Camp Canaan

Storyline

Kyung-wha Kang, Deputy United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights began her first visit to Haiti on Saturday (3 May).

For her first day of the five-day visit, Kang managed to get a snapshot of the main human rights issues the country is facing.

In Ouanaminthe, north eastern border with Dominican Republic, the United Nations official witnessed some of the difficulties human rights protectors face in their fight against human trafficking.

Two bridges with almost no police or border control separate Haiti from its neighbouring country, making it easy to feed the demand for child labour and prostitution.

SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-wha Kang, deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“Child exploitation is not a crime in Haitian law. This should be changed.”

In Fort Liberte, the main North eastern town, Kang visited a prison, where 60 percent of the 252 inmates are still awaiting to be tried in overcrowded cells.

SOUNDBITE (English) Kyung-wha Kang, deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
“I visited many poor countries but I’ve never seen such terrible conditions for prisoners.”

Back in Port-au-Prince, the deputy High Commissioner met with some of the thousands of inhabitants of IDP camps outside of the Haitian capital.

Kang is expected to address these and other issues with President Martelly and the Haitian parliament before leaving on Wednesday.